{"id":238128,"date":"2026-06-01T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/chris-hables-gray-on-ai-and-the-singularity-we-need-strong-citizenship"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:07:20","slug":"chris-hables-gray-on-ai-and-the-singularity-we-need-strong-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/chris-hables-gray-on-ai-and-the-singularity-we-need-strong-citizenship","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hables Gray on AI and the Singularity: We Need Strong Citizenship!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chris-hables-gray-on-ai-and-the-singularity-we-need-strong-citizenship.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/201768493-singularity1on1-chris-hables-gray.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, I interviewed a man who studies cyborgs and war for a living.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in that conversation, Prof. Chris Hables Gray predicted a global pandemic. I chimed in that it would most likely stem from a bird flu outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>We were both right. Neither of us wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>That was six years before COVID. And here we are in 2026, watching H5N1 headlines pile up again.<\/p>\n<p>The point was never the prediction. The point was what he said we should do about it.<\/p>\n<p>Chris did not pitch a gadget. He did not sell a forecast. He argued that surviving the century is not a technology problem; it is a citizenship problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/chris-hables-gray-on-ai-and-the-singularity-we-need-strong-citizenship\">Continue reading \u201cChris Hables Gray on AI and the Singularity: We Need Strong Citizenship!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, I interviewed a man who studies cyborgs and war for a living. Somewhere in that conversation, Prof. Chris Hables Gray predicted a global pandemic. I chimed in that it would most likely stem from a bird flu outbreak. We were both right. Neither of us wanted to be. That was six years before [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1488,6,64,1511,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-surveillance","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}